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Summary: Brilliant, but only just
Review: This is the master at work, no doubt. Not many authors have the skill and expertise to handle more than one sub-plot and to do it so beautifully. The size of the book would intimidate a lot of people, but I would advice you to pick it up and read. It is quite educational - ebola virus, iranian politics etc. Good Read!!
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Summary: BIGGEST AND MAYBE BEST!!
Review: This is definetly Clancy's biggest book yet.Is it the best who knows? It could be if he would stop writing those stupid OP-CENTER books. it is after all as it says on his book cover "It's a colossal read".
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Summary: I love Clancy, but....
Review: I love Clancy's writings, he is probably my all time favorite author. I had many people tell me this was his best book yet, but I disagree. To sum it up I think the master tried to do a few too many things with this one. The Jack Ryan of Patriot games seems to have been taken over by some kind of alien. He used to be a mix of classy Annapolis, cagey spook, and take no garbage daredevil. In Exec. Orders he seemed a little too much like a high school drop out who thinks he knows everything -- out of his element and deceived. The presidency would surely change a man and I think Clancy did a good job showing the stress of that position. But it felt like some fundamental elements of Jack's personality had changed. Not just covered up by presidential stress, but gone. If you're a Clancy fan you won't be miserable reading it. If you don't like him to begin with, stay away from this one.
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Summary: Biggest Clancy so far, but not best.
Review: Executive Orders' picks the story up right where 'Debt of Honor' ended. So read the other first, it's better in my view, unless already done so.
If you don't like several sub-plots at a time, three of them life-threatening to the president, don't like the suspense of doom looming over the horizon and do like unhappy endings then DON'T read it. Otherwise DO. I could comment on some of Tom Clancy's political views, but I won't because then I would like to comment on which I like and which s... . Central is his view that the tax system should be as simple and as non-dirigistic as possible, lest you swamp your system with people working the system and not the real problems. Contrary to some other comments on the book I found it pretty packed with suspense. It is perhaps frustrating to know roughly 600 pages beforehand that there is a bomb poised over the presidents head and the good guys simply don't get it until it is almost too late or even until it is too late and the bad guys are simply stopped by having used up their store of luck. I therefore assume that most of the people rating this book low don't like to be taunted by non-super heroes on the good side. I for my part will simply wait for at least one sequel. Crystal ball says it could sport JR's reelection campaign and some nasty plot by the power hungry chinese. South America might sport some sub-plot and the beaten Japanese defense could be in danger of being overwhelmed. Or whatever. Maybe the so-sinister chinese master-mind is just bright enough that he will wait for Ryan's presidential period to pass.
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Summary: An increasingly absorbing and genuinely exciting story
Review: Apon reading other reviews and seeing the size of the book, I admit that I was intimidated. I read it over a few weeks and was drawn into the story. The collage of activities, happening simultaneously are reasonably easy to manage mentally and the characters are simple but interesting. The cornering of the "good guys" and your basic wonder how they will win, denies you putting the book down! A great read!
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Summary: AGAIN A GREAT WORK
Review: In this book, Clancy again shows how dangerous modern-technology and power can be. But, if there are people like Jack Ryan, the world is al little bit safer. A very great book from a very great author!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: First-rate
Review: EXECUTIVE ORDERS is the best thriller I've read since Craig Furnas's THE SHAPE: A NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE (That one deals with modern Nazis threatening to topple Peru...and much more. It is available through Amazon.com. Buy that one first. It's a 10+) But EXECUTIVE ORDERS is good stuff. I can't wait for the movie.
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Summary: Too long, tedious and boring!
Review: I am a Clancy Fan from the start. have read all of his books, have his computer game etc. I got bogged down on page 308 of 875 and never went back. A good editor could have knocked off 200+ pages easily. It did not have the snap of "Sum of All Fears" or his first two novels. Instead it had way too many subplots, a fairly ( for Clancy, boring main plot, and too much stuffing in between. If you doubt me, read one of his first two novels, and then big up this behemoth and see if you can finish it! If you have not read his non-fiction books on "Submarine", "Marine" , "Armored Cav", and the non-fiction account of Desert Storm, and you are a military junkie, don't miss them! The best book of all is "The Tom Clancy Companion", trust me...
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Summary: Jack Ryan for President -- RAH!
Review: Tom Clancy is at his best in this book, where he follows Jack Ryan to the top of the political ladder -- exactly where Ryan doesn't want to be! Mr. Clancy addresses all issues that surround the presidency -- current and previous -- and delivers to the reader an insight into what happens when a truly virtuous man takes the office. The writing in this novel is superb, the characterization is rich and detailed. The characters come to life and jump out at you, grabbing you into the action. Executive Orders gives insight into the institution of the Presidency, and shows not only its perks but its perils as well. Clancy once again shows his talent for having all the storylines triangulate into one catastrophic series of events that will leave you breathless and unable to put the book down. Jack Ryan's speeches are superb, we are able to watch his character grow and change throughout the novel. Ryan handles the Presidency with an eloquence this country has not seen. Every character's reaction (whether positive or negative) gives him depth and believability in the new role, and insight into their own thoughts and nuances. I have one thing to say: Jack Ryan for President!
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Summary: Quintessential, Maybe Ultimate Clancy
Review: Poor Jack Ryan. He's a reluctant President, trying to do the most complex job in the civilized world with sincerity and integrity, and Tom Clancy assaults him from every direction! President Ryan faces a barbaric and devious attack by a ruthless foreign power, internal terrorist threats emanating from both inside and outside the United States, a sleazy political conspiracy and an assassination plot. And all he has to do, while he's dealing with all this adversity, is reconstruct a destroyed Congress and Supreme Court! This is Tom Clancy at his best - pages fly by as all these plot points play out. Clancy does indulge in some political fantasies (like using "humilation" on drug offenders... sorry, Tom, I'm not with you on this one), but you do not have to agree with the minimal political musings to love the book. Like most of his work, this is a plot-driven, fast-paced story where the bad guys are capable of dabbling in state-of-the-art technology, but the good guys are always just enough ahead to emerge victorious in a rousing, emotionally satisfying conclusion.
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